One hundred million grains of sand,
each one a part of what was planned.
Measured each before they fell
amongst the seaweed and the shells.
Feeling warm beneath your feet
everything it has to be.
Waiting to return to sea.
Waiting just like you and me.

Against a dark background
On this backwater planet,
We are all just hicks and heathens
In the scheme of galactic beings.

Hush,

Don't speak so loud.

It's best to remain hidden,
Out of sight, safe and sound.
Like the lost Amazonian tribe

That rues the day it was found.

If I were to tell you
expose my darkness
unleash my destruction
I know my ocean of black
would swallow you whole
Your eyes would sink into your stomach
and no longer would I be your shining prize
I would flee
and wreck even more that I own
And I would say goodbye
before the period even followed my sentence
I know I'm not woman enough
to see your pain from my betrayal
slip into the carpet
at my feet
So yes, my dear I will flee
I'm so much better at leaving
I don't deserve your concrete feet
and your purity
Commitment drenched in your every move
I've known all along
this time would come
When my skin would shed
my mask would sail
and underneath all that I've shown you
A ***** lush ******* unveiled.

there's a place you've never been
a place I've never shown
and for the slightest moment
I'm willing to show someone else
It's a lightless house
filled with plagued memories
that I've learned to call home
I take you down the rayless halls
and as the pages start to bleed
I start to fear that you'd turn your back just like the pages unwritten
your eyes turn red dry
as if you've had them open for days
I start to regret showing you
the paintings on the walls
just when I start to feel numb
I feel your fingers run down my hand
linking them between mine
and for the slightest moment
I felt less afraid
you've taken me to a place I've never been

- Taylor Anne Steingold 2:28am

I used to love thunder
It made me feel small
Insignificant
But now it only reminds me
That I am insignificant
To you